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SUMMARY:Online Forum: China\, BRI and Implications on Digital Governance\, Authoritarianism and Future of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:🗓️ Date: 2025-01-17 \n⏰ Time: 14:00 – 16:30 (Taipei Time) \n📌 Join the Meeting via link: Zoom Meeting \n📌 Zoom Meeting ID: 839 1373 0956 / Password: 195743 \nForum Language: English \nModerator: Dolma Tsering (Postdoctoral researcher\, International Center for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) \n\n✨About the Forum \nThe rapid evolution of digital technologies and connectivity\, coupled with a new industrial revolution\, has reshaped the societal landscape and geopolitical dynamics of major powers. Data is now regarded as the ‘new gold’\, whilst control over critical technologies has become a geopolitical asset. Although the United States has maintained its leading position in digital power\, China has emerged as a formidable competitor over the past decade. Under President Xi Jinping’s leadership\, China has been engrossed in developing a comprehensive digital grand strategy\, dubbed ‘Digital China’. This initiative aims to expand China’s digital infrastructure both domestically and internationally\, encompassing the development of 5G networks\, provision of technical assistance\, and installation of CCTV cameras. \nWhilst Beijing’s expansion of digital infrastructure through the Digital Silk Road has helped bridge the digital divide in African and South Asian nations\, it has also sparked serious concerns regarding surveillance\, China’s access to and control over data\, and technological standards. This expansion has raised alarms about potential espionage\, coercion\, and monitoring of dissidents and refugees\, thereby threatening human rights protection. \nThis online discussion invites scholars and activists from the Global South to critically examine China’s digital footprint and its implications for human rights. It explores how digital technologies are reshaping logistics\, infrastructure\, and governance mechanisms\, such as Smart Cities and CCTV surveillance systems\, and considers how cyber networks and data collection enhance social control in a complex environment. \n\n✨Topics \n\nThe Digital Silk Road: China’s Infrastructures of Repression\nMichael Caster\, Head of Global China Program\, Article 19\nXi’s Expansion of Digital Repression of Tibetans\nLobsang Gyatso Sither\, Director of Technology\, Tibet Action Institute\nHow China’s Digital Governance Erodes Human Rights and Freedoms in Hong Kong\nCheng Sze Lut\, Former vice-chairman of the Labour Party in Hong Kong. Since the imposition of the National Security Law\, he has lived in exile in Taiwan\nNepal-China Digital Connectivity: BRI and Beyond\nMahesh Kumar Kushwaha\, Research Fellow\, Centre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy\, Nepal\n\n\nOrganizer： \nInternational Center for Cultural Studies\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\, MOE-SPROUT 2.0\, Conflict\, Justice\, Decolonization: Asia in Transition in the 21st Century \nResearch Cluster： \n\n✴️ Sub-project 2: The Chip Era and Digital Governance\nPrincipal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu\n✴️ Sub-project 3: Migration\, Unequal Citizens\, and Critical Legal Studies\nPrincipal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu\, Yu-Fan Chiu\, Mei-Lin Pan
URL:https://transit-asia.chss.nycu.edu.tw/cms/event/china-bri-and-implications-on-digital-governance-authoritarianism-human-rights/
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